Perpetually Young at Heart
Growing up, I was the youngest of cousins on my mother’s side of the family, surrounded by elderly relatives on Dad’s side. While I’m the eldest of five siblings, I’ve often felt in deference to those...
View ArticleWords, Fabrics, and Weeding
Eastern side of our house before I got busy…. We’ve been enjoying a lovely spate of precipitation here in Silicon Valley, and boy I’m thankful for it. My front and back gardens are full of weeds, and...
View ArticleSo little relative time….
While I know all things happen in their own time, occasionally I feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the day, weeks in a year, decades in…. I’m heading to see my youngest daughter tomorrow,...
View ArticleIt’s a wonderful life….
I had a lovely week with my youngest and her boy, and a dog named Zelda. Between The Burrito and a hound, I had no trouble earning my steps and sleeping well. Now back at home I’m wrapping up the...
View ArticleStepping Back in Time
New Year’s Eve 2013 at The Hook in Capitola, California….. At first I titled this post Like Stepping Back in Time, then I backspaced the Like; today I totally felt as if years had melted away, in...
View ArticleAnd so comes The End….
In the front yard is my lilac bush, surrounded by roses. A fragrant spot, especially in spring. At 3.38 p.m. PDT, I closed up my WIP, then saved it on the flash drive that sits on a desk next to the...
View ArticleFit for a Starship Captain (in training, of course….)
Washed and ready to be drooled on, the sure mark of a successful comforter. Besides novels, other WIPs are wrapping up; I completed this baby quilt for Master Tiberius, and will deliver it perhaps...
View ArticleHexies, a nieta, and superheroes
The Hulk vs scrap triangles…. Little Miss spent the weekend with her abuelo and me, days full of new discoveries. At nearly three years old, my eldest grandgirl loves to play with stuffed animals,...
View ArticleThe Hawk, Part Thirteen
Usually when another piece of this saga has been published, an accompanying entry is brief; it’s up and you can find it here. But while I plan to release this tale in a formal manner, more needs to...
View ArticleLast thoughts for 2018
For a lovely little girl, Miss Suzi Q…. Well, not the year’s FINAL musings, but probably more apt than not. Butte County is my childhood home, I’ve had a cold for a week, but have finished two quilts...
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